By the 6th century, the monastery,
also called "Deir Anba Makaryus", used to be
the official residence of the bishops of Alexandria. The heads of the Coptic
Church were forbidden to reside in Alexandria because of
the Byzantine rulers of Egypt at that time. It is now the
official residence of the Coptic patriarch. In this
monastery, the first Wadi Natrun
library was established in the 17th century. The
monastery consists of at least four churches and a
winery. St. Magar lived as a hermit monk in a cave. He
received divine revelation in the form of a dream to
build a church. Another interesting church inside the
complex is The Church of Forty-nine Martyrs. This church
has beautiful icons of St. Magar, St. George, St. Mark
and the Virgin Mary.
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